[fptex] is there a conflict between the hyperref package and the xr package?

[Luis A Escobar]

Heiko, thanks again. Your summary at the end of your
    message is very useful.

    As a user I just wonder, why do I have to bother in known all the
    fine detail? Couldn't the error message be a little bit more
   descriptive? Shouldn't all these compatibility among package be
    kept automatically?
    I know is difficult to write these kind of stuff in a way that covers
    all the naive things an unawared user might do.

    By the way, I don't see any thing wrong with your English. On the
    contrary is looks pretty good. Better to blame my misunderstanding
    it on my inability to read precise terse English.

    Thanks again.

    Best regards, Luis A.




Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>@tug.org on 09/10/2002 11:01:44 AM

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cc:    (bcc: Luis A Escobar/luis/LSU)

Subject:  Re: [fptex] is there a conflict between the hyperref package and
      the xr package?


On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Jose Carlos Santos wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Luis A Escobar wrote:
>
> On the other hand, I have one last question: do your external documents
> also use hyperref? I ask this because Heiko Oberdiek once wrote that
> "[m]ixing of documents with partly loaded hyperrefs is not supported".

Yes, I have already written
  "Both files should use hyperref"
in this thread, but my English seems to be too bad.

Package hyperref/nameref increases the count of arguments
of references, they are using five instead of two in the
basic LaTeX case. The following should work:

A := referencing file
B := referenced file

* Without hyperref:
  A with xr or xr-hyper, without hyperref
  B without hyperref

* With hyperref:
  A with xr-hyper and hyperref
  B with hyperref

The following case does not work:
  A with xr-hyper and hyperref
  B without hyperref
Problem:
  * ...
  * B.aux does not contain informations about the
    location of the reference:
    * no link target
    * no absolute page number
So an update has to deal with this problem:
a) Reference without link.
or
b) Reference with link to first page of other document.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>
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